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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite
UCC has paid huge sums to a criminal professor
This story is not for republication. I bear responsibility for the things I write. I have read the guidelines and understand that I must not write anything untrue, and I won't.
This is a public interest story about a complete failure of governance and management at UCC.

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
Socratic Dialog Between ChatGPT-5 and Mind Agent Reveals Fatal and Deliberate 'Design by Construction' Flaw
This design flaw in ChatGPT-5's default epistemic mode subverts what the much touted ChatGPT-5 can do... so long as the flaw is not tickled, any usage should be fine---The epistemological question is: how would anyone in the public, includes you reading this (since no one is all knowing), in an unfamiliar domain know whether or not the flaw has been tickled when seeking information or understanding of a domain without prior knowledge of that domain???!

This analysis is a pretty unique and significant contribution to the space of empirical evaluation of LLMs that exist in AI public world... at least thus far, as far as I am aware! For what it's worth--as if anyone in the ChatGPT universe cares as they pile up on using the "PhD level scholar in your pocket".

According to GPT-5, and according to my tests, this flaw exists in all LLMs... What is revealing is the deduction GPT-5 made: Why ?design choice? starts looking like ?deliberate flaw?.

People are paying $200 a month to not just ChatGPT, but all major LLMs have similar Pro pricing! I bet they, like the normal user of free ChatGPT, stay in LLM's default mode where the flaw manifests itself. As it did in this evaluation.

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent
Evaluating Semantic Reasoning Capability of AI Chatbot on Ontologically Deep Abstract (bias neutral) Thought
I have been evaluating AI Chatbot agents for their epistemic limits over the past two months, and have tested all major AI Agents, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, for their epistemic limits and their negative impact as information gate-keepers.... Today I decided to test for how AI could be the boon for humanity in other positive areas, such as in completely abstract realms, such as metaphysical thought. Meaning, I wanted to test the LLMs for Positives beyond what most researchers benchmark these for, or have expressed in the approx. 2500 Turing tests in Humanity?s Last Exam.. And I chose as my first candidate, Google DeepMind's Gemini as I had not evaluated it before on anything.

offsite link Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Fri Aug 01, 2025 23:54 | 1 of indy
We have all known it for over 2 years that it is a genocide in Gaza
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has finally admitted what everyone else outside Israel has known for two years is that the Israeli state is carrying out a genocide in Gaza

Western governments like the USA are complicit in it as they have been supplying the huge bombs and missiles used by Israel and dropped on innocent civilians in Gaza. One phone call from the USA regime could have ended it at any point. However many other countries are complicity with their tacit approval and neighboring Arab countries have been pretty spinless too in their support

With the release of this report titled: Our Genocide -there is a good chance this will make it okay for more people within Israel itself to speak out and do something about it despite the fact that many there are actually in support of the Gaza

offsite link China?s CITY WIDE CASH SEIZURES Begin ? ATMs Frozen, Digital Yuan FORCED Overnight Wed Jul 30, 2025 21:40 | 1 of indy
This story is unverified but it is very instructive of what will happen when cash is removed
THIS STORY IS UNVERIFIED BUT PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO OR READ THE TRANSCRIPT AS IT GIVES AN VERY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT A CASHLESS SOCIETY WILL LOOK LIKE. And it ain't pretty

A single video report has come out of China claiming China's biggest cities are now cashless, not by choice, but by force. The report goes on to claim ATMs have gone dark, vaults are being emptied. And overnight (July 20 into 21), the digital yuan is the only currency allowed.

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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Oct 10, 2025 00:47 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Teenagers Must Be Warned About the Dystopia Being Built Around Them Thu Oct 09, 2025 19:00 | Mike Fairclough
Mike Fairclough was a nationally feted headteacher before he was cancelled during Covid for speaking out against the tyranny. Now he has written a novel to warn teens about the dystopian world being built around them.
The post Teenagers Must Be Warned About the Dystopia Being Built Around Them appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Italy to Ban Burka Thu Oct 09, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Italy is to ban the burka as part of new legislation against "Islamic separatism" that includes strengthening penalties for forced marriages and stricter financial regulation of Muslim organisations.
The post Italy to Ban Burka appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Great Reverse Ferret is Underway Thu Oct 09, 2025 15:05 | Joanna Gray
It's the season for the reverse ferret, the narrative whiplash ? call it what you will, but everyone seems to be at it, says Joanna Gray. As the recantations roll in, how do we avoid making the same mistakes again?
The post The Great Reverse Ferret is Underway appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Children to Be Able to Choose Their Own ?Gender? at Any Age Under New EU Rules Thu Oct 09, 2025 13:18 | Will Jones
Children will be able to choose their own?'gender'?at any age under new EU rules set to be imposed across the continent with penalties for countries that refuse to comply.
The post Children to Be Able to Choose Their Own ‘Gender’ at Any Age Under New EU Rules appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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Amazon and other Online Mega Corporations Stand to Gain from Ban on Sale of Non-Essential Items in Shops.

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Friday October 30, 2020 12:20author by T Report this post to the editors

Today across the country all the major food retailers like Lidl, Aldi and Tesco have been banned from selling middle isle "non-essential" but really are essential items like clothes, toys, homeware and other items and there has been widespread anger. This is being co-ordinated across Europe as only last week the same thing happened in Wales, UK and other countries where co-ordinated lockdowns and curfews are being put in place. Same types of bans are widespread not only across Europe but the USA.
A dad attempted to shop at a Welsh supermarket wearing just his boxer shorts and a facemask in protest at Wales’ ban on selling ‘non-essential’ items in supermarkets.
A dad attempted to shop at a Welsh supermarket wearing just his boxer shorts and a facemask in protest at Wales’ ban on selling ‘non-essential’ items in supermarkets.

Today across the country all the major food retailers like Lidl, Aldi and Tesco have been banned from selling middle isle "non-essential" but really are essential items like clothes, toys, homeware and other items and there has been widespread anger. This is being co-ordinated across Europe as only last week the same thing happened in Wales, UK and other countries where co-ordinated lockdowns and curfews are being put in place. Same types of bans are widespread not only across Europe but the USA.

This move means big mega corporations like Amazon and other Big Tech online traders will profit greatly as vast swathes of people will now buy these goods online. Their sales turnover over since the start of the Covid-19 hoax have already increased by well over 100 billion dollars and they are on course to completey destroy mainstream -i.e physical shops and stores -as they are taking all their market share. The result already is millions of layoffs worldwide in that sector but the latest moves by authoritarian governments will accelerate the trend.

Given that the most powerful people in the world who are also one and the same people behind the World Economic Forum (WEF) who are pushing for and proposing a huge global financial reset -likely to improvise people and wipe out pensions -and unlikely to transfer any wealth from these people, -these are the same people who own Big Tech, Corporate Media and outfits like Amazon. It does without saying that since they are massively benefiting from this move, that they have instigated through pressure in the media and behind the scenes on medical bureaucrats and politicians. These are also the same people behind Big Pharma who are pushing mandatory vaccines which they want the entire global population to take every year.

The effect of all the Covid lockdowns which have been massively pushed by the global corporate media (owned by the richest and most powerful people in the world) in conjunction with those in the political establishment who are comprised in some way (e.g. Epstein type blackmail), is that they are destroying the economy but in a very particular way. The very large global business have seen their turnover and profits soar but practically everyone else has been decimated and in particular smaller businesses like small shops, pubs, restaurants and the myraid other types of small businesses. This is and will lead to huge long term unemployment of hundreds of millions of people worldwide and that is why the Covid payment was brought in to buy people off so they didn't notice so much the total economic and permanent destruction going on all around. The Covid payment will soon become a permanent form of Universal Basic Income. In many ways the ban on non-essential items, the destruction of the tourism industry and other surprises on the way, are a way to get people used to lower standards of living in the future and getting them used to obeying the authorities. So far it has gone well as the vast majority have shown complete obedience to lockdowns, restrictions on all aspects of their life like intrusive trackers, tracing, testing and of course the useless and unnecessary mandate to wear masks. The beauty of the masks is that it sends a constant signal of fear into the brain. And when people are in fear, they cannot and do not think logically and regress to using more primitive processing elements of their brain.




Here you can see that it is not just here. It is GLOBALLY COORDINATED and Why ????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fzCPxXqhkg
SCARY....Vermont Walmart and Target ban "non essential" items?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krsvlWIsuG4
Michigan Wal-Mart's Prohibited from Selling Non-Essential Items


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2020/oct/26/welsh-government-defends-ban-on-non-essential-item-sale-during-firebreak-lockdown-video


https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2020-10-24/criticism-mounts-over-ludicrous-ban-of-non-essential-items-in-welsh-supermarkets
Criticism mounts over 'ludicrous' ban of non-essential items in Welsh supermarkets

https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-walmart-target-ban-on-nonessential-items-shoppers-revolt-2020-4?op=1&r=US&IR=T
Angry shoppers slam new rules preventing Walmart, Target, and Costco stores from selling 'nonessential' items such as toys and clothing in certain parts of the US

Dad Protests the Non-Essentialing of Clothes by Showing Up at Store in Underwear
https://www.anti-empire.com/dad-protests-the-non-essentialing-of-clothes-by-showing-up-at-store-in-underwear/

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